[MD] Consciousness a la Platt

[Heather Perella]

> > SA:  You keep saying Arlo is NOT answering your
> questions, but he has. 
> > Your turning to turn the tables on him.  Are we really
> going to waste our
> > time, Platt, beating this dead horse?

Platt: 
> Arlo supplied evasions, not answers. If you are going to go
> that route, 
> why not accuse Arlo of lying because he keeps saying Ham
> isn't answering
> his questions. Anyway, where is it written that anyone has
> to answer questions, especially when they are thinly disguised
> accusations?  
> Finally, If you want me to stop beating this horse, get off
> it. 

SA:  I said "our time", meaning, we are beating a dead horse, you and me, especially since your beef is with Arlo.  I'm still think you didn't answer his questions, but it seems as if you brought something up with Arlo and back-off.  If you think otherwise, argue with Arlo.  

  

> > Platt: 
> > > Again I'm surprised at your personal
> accusations. 
> > 
> > SA:  And again, where is the personal accusation? 
> Don't see it.
> 
> Accusing Bo of trying to hijack the MOQ. Not only is it a
> personal attack 
> but implies that your interpretation of the MOQ is the only
> acceptable one. 

SA:  How is that personal?  How is any of this not-personal?  Bo is trying to hijack the moq for he says Pirsig didn't even know what he was writing about, so, the guy who invented, who created a philosophy called the moq doesn't know his own philosophy?  I can see disagreeing on certain points of the moq, certain points that do nothing to the core of what the moq is, but once somebody starts to tear down the basic aspects of the moq, well, it's no longer the moq, it is a NEW philosophy, but for some reason wants the name of this metaphysics, he wants to continue to call what he has come up with admist these core moq issues - the moq.  He needs to change his philosophy into a new name and quit stealing all the work and experience that Pirsig went through in order to come up with the moq.  My interpretation is one that respects that this metaphysics is not my own, but it is a metaphysics that we can learn from and dynamically understand and have our own
 thoughts, our own interpretations, but at a certain point when somebody tries to tear down the core issues of a metaphysics, then they tear down the metaphysics all together and it is no longer their interpretation, it is a new philosophy and they need to come up with a new name for their philosophy.  It's philosophical Platt.


SA